Black inca

The black inca (Coeligena prunellei) is a species of hummingbird found only in Colombia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest and urban areas. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Black inca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Coeligena
Species:
C. prunellei
Binomial name
Coeligena prunellei
(Bourcier, 1843)

They hunt arthropods and forage nectar from red and yellow flowers via traplining such as Fuchsia, Bomarea, Aetanthus, Aphelandra, Palicourea, Psammisia, and Thibaudia.[2] It gave its greatest preference however to Abutilon sp. and Bomarea caldasii - species not native to the area.[2]

It is a generally quiet species with occasional short 'ick's or 'pip's.[2]


It was formerly classified as an endangered species by the IUCN,[1] but new research has shown it to be not as rare as it was believed. Consequently, it was downlisted to Vulnerable in 2008.[3] It remains endangered nationally in Columbia however, due to a 90% habitat loss.[2]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Coeligena prunellei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. "Black Inca". neotropical.birds.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  3. "What's new (2008)". BirdLife International. 2008. Archived from the original on September 14, 2008. Retrieved May 23, 2008.


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